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See Pootoogook

contemporary artist
Cape Dorset

 

See Pootoogook See Pootoogook - Transformation1152Y
Transformation Composition, 2004
serpentine
9x8x3.5"
SOLD

 

Date of Birth:    August 1, 1967
Male E7-2405
Place of Birth:  Cape Dorset
                                                                                                                        

See began carving when he was in his early twenties around 1990.  He particularly likes to carve mythological creatures such as animal spirits and transformation pieces.

He is the son of Cape Dorset artists Egeevudluk and Napachie Pootoogook.  His maternal grandmother, the late Pitseolak Ashoona, was a renowned graphic artist at Cape Dorset.

EXHIBITIONS:

September 1994  Burdick Gallery, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
November – December 1995 Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany (brochure)
August – September 2001 Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts, Houston North Gallery, Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
November  Small Sculptures by Great Artists (Nov. 2001), Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

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